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Coins

21 Mar 2008 (Updated 15 Oct 2009)

Is there an algorithm to use the max numbers of coins in your pocket?

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Description	How do you choose the coins in your pocket to pay something? Is there an algorithm to use the max numbers of coins? Of course there is as shown in the book "L'algoritmo del parcheggio" (the parking algorithm) by Prof. Furio Honsell. This GUI help you to choose the exact combination of coins that you have in your pocket to pay the bill. More details on: http://www.advancedmcode.org/coins.html
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.1.0 (R14SP3)
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Other Files	coins.fig, coins.m, license.txt

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27 Mar 2008	Dimitri Shvorob	Is there an algorithm to use the max numbers of coins? Of course there is, as anybody who has taken half a course in dynamic programming will tell you. Your own code solves the problem in less than 10 lines :)

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Updates
12 Nov 2008	Changes in help section
14 Oct 2009	The file coins.fig is more rational using global variables
15 Oct 2009	Somewhere, the floating point representation of cents retrieve an incorrect results. This was fixed multiplying by 100 (so the cents became an integer).

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
gui tools	Giuseppe Cardillo	22 Oct 2008 09:54:30
example	Giuseppe Cardillo	22 Oct 2008 09:54:30
coins	Giuseppe Cardillo	22 Oct 2008 09:54:30
algorithm	Giuseppe Cardillo	22 Oct 2008 09:54:30
choose	Giuseppe Cardillo	22 Oct 2008 09:54:30
tools	Giuseppe Cardillo	22 Oct 2008 09:54:30
gui	Giuseppe Cardillo	22 Oct 2008 09:54:30
tools	Cristina McIntire	12 Nov 2008 14:07:57
example	Cristina McIntire	12 Nov 2008 14:07:57
gui	Cristina McIntire	13 Nov 2008 16:34:49

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